PM nods for road dig up in Bangkok's suburb

BANGKOK, October 29 (TNA) - The Thai government is urgently digging up parts of the Leab Klong Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok road in Thanyaburi District of Pathum Thani Province to become an underneath steel-barry passage for masses of upstream water to flow into the sea through the Bang Prakong River. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra affirmed that work on the Leab Klong Rangsit-Nakhon Nayok Road, at Klong 9 area, will be completed by Saturday night, promising that the government will fully compensate affected people living in the area. Yingluck, who was accompanied by a group of authorities concerned to inspect the area and to seek an approval of people in the locality before making the final decision, insisted that there are no other appropriate ways to quickly drain out floodwater from upstream areas to the sea to save the capital's inner strategic areas from inundations and thanked the villagers for their full cooperation. The Pheu Thai premier also conducted an aerial survey of the water situation in several areas flooded and being at risk of floods and visited flood victims at a temporary shelter provided by the Sa Bua Temple in Pathum Thani. (TNA)